Warminster, Wiltshire

Great Meal & lovely Landlord

The Tea Rooms are charming and re thatching has taken place (every 10 years), the food served by the charming lady was superb and affordable. I glanced into the lovers nook and it is very cosy, afterwards a pleasant walk around Shearwater which is but a few yards out of the front door.  Food for the soul and eye !!
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The Old Bell Hotel

Well not my memories exactly, but those from my father's diaries. He was John Welch and married a Peggie Richens who had grown up in Warminster. They married in the Minster Church and he left immediately for the war. When he came back he was stationed in Westbury for a while and wanted to make the area his home. He spoke... [more]

Warminster is Home!

I was born in Warminster, in 1972, in what was known at the time as The Strawberry House! My Dad had painted it quite a deep pink, when he bought it.
44 Boreham Rd, that's where I was actually born, my lovely family home.
My Dad was a well known painter and decorator, Bob 'The Brush' Woollard, and my Mum, Peg,... [more]

The town park

As a child in the late 1950's and early 1960's, I and a whole bunch of mates used to go to the Regal cinema on Saturday mornings. We went through the town park as the most direct route and would often stop off on the way back to fish for minnows and sticklebacks in the lake.

During the winter of... [more]

Crickets & Formaldehyde

My mother lived in Warminster as a child and had lots of friends in the area. One worked at Longleat and she lived in what was called 'The Inkwell House' in the grounds. We went for tea. There were lots of very strange things pickled in jars & they weren't onions! The long grass outside was full of crickets. What happened... [more]

Race you to the water

I am ordering a copy of this picture to send to my dear childhood friend, Peta Fenner. Peta celebrates her 50th birthday soon and it is quite possible that both her and I are in the photo. We would spend many days of our summer holidays playing in the paddling pool. The big pool was always cold and... [more]

Wiltshire Pocket Album

For many years Warminster had one of the largest corn markets in the west of England, and its prosperity is reflected in the many fine Georgian buildings in the Market Place.

West Wiltshire Towns Photographic Memories

This church was built as part of the 'suburban' church movement for dealing with the expanding industrial towns of Wiltshire. Pevsner describes it as 'a long church, W tower with tall, heavy pinnacles. Tall two-light Perpendicular windows'. The architect was John Leachman, who was also responsible for St Margaret's, Corsley. The church was expanded c1870 by T H Wyatt.

West Wiltshire Towns Photographic Memories

The Bristol architect Joseph Glascodine built the original house, the centre part, in 1796. This then became the core of the college, which was founded in 1860 by Canon Sir James Erasmus Philipps, , to educate young men as missionaries. Years later he founded St Denys College to train young women. It was closed in 1943, and is now part of Warminster School.